Sentence examples for light seeds from inspiring English sources

Maybe human behavior will someday justify a theology rather like that of the ancient Manichaeans: maybe nature, though dominated by darkness, has always contained seeds of light, seeds of intellect and love, which over the ages grow until they transcend their base embodiment.

"Also, animals may take small or light seeds greater distances because they are easier to carry.

The next step is to follow the city plants to see if the proportion of light seeds decreases as the plants continue to evolve.

Then, the researchers took seeds from city weeds and countryside weeds and grew them under similar conditions in the lab, comparing heavy seeds to light seeds.

Ecologists have long known that plants in patchy habitats, such as islands, for example, produce more heavy seeds than light seeds, presumably because wind-swept seeds tend to get lost in the ocean.

By counting the various kinds of seeds on the plants and then counting the seeds that fell on a sticky surface just below the plant, the team found that heavy seeds always landed on ground beneath the plant whereas light seeds had only a 45% chance of sticking around.

Row spacings had no significant effect on plant height but tall and profusely branched plants developed in wide row spacing and light seeding conditions.

The black seed coat of accession RAH4124 indicates, however, that this line is distinct from the European cultivars known to harbor the mlo-1 allele, which are typically characterized by light seed coats.

The pre-Andean provenance had lighter seeds than the coastal provenance.

Heavy seeds fall into the grass below the plant, whereas lighter seeds with feathery tails drift in the wind to new habitats.

The authors said they were surprised by the findings because it was assumed that lighter seeds would be carried further by the wind, water or animals.